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Skriven 2013-07-03 16:39:34 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Re: steamed  was: Light's out
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->  -> short route from field to frozen, and they do indeed taste pretty
->  -> good... comes in regular (99cents a bag) and organic ($1.99), and
for 
a
->  -> while there were dollar off coupons for the organic...  ;)
->  -> 
->  RH> One guess which version you bought.  
-> 
-> Quite.  :)  I actually had a few coupons available... and at least once,
-> I grabbed a regular, for which they applied the coupon and gave it to me
-> free... There isn't all that much difference, tastewise between the two,
-> so far as we can tell... 
-> 
There generally isn't.  In some other things there is, but not veggies. 
The 
ones I don't buy come from Whole Foods; they source some of their frozen 
"organic" vegetables in China.  Laugh here about the organic part - Chinese 
laws don't have regulations about organic foods to my knowledge. 
 
->  -> in a steamer bag baby summer squash mixes, too, once in a while.  A
->  -> little pricy that way, but not too bad, and definitely a convenient
->  -> tasty option... 
-> 
->  RH> I've seen those but don't have any handy.  
-> 
-> Which, the steamer bags for putting your own fresh produce in...?  Or
-> the pre-packed on the produce shelf sort...?  I try not to run out of
-> the first, now that I've discovered them...  :)

The former; the latter are everwhere.
 
->  RH> Birdseye makes one that's fairly good.  When they put it on sale
for 
a
->  RH> dollar a bag I often throw one in the cart.
-> 
-> I think I got some of those a while back, with a coupon, of course. 
-> Since then, Wegmans came out with their (less expensive) version, and as
-> I mentioned before introduced them with their own store coupon... :)
-> A dollar a bag isn't too steep... even if the bag of dry rice is only 99
-> cents (or sometimes a little less) a pound... ;)
-> 
It's not horrible.  Not great, but not horrible.  The store has its own 
brand here too.  I've never tried that one - no coupons. ;-)
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